As a follow up to a previous post, Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have set a new Internet2 land speed record using the next-generation Internet protocol IPv6. The team transferred one terabyte of data across 10,037 kilometers in less than one hour, from Sunnyvale, California, to Geneva, Switzerland. This corresponds to a sustained TCP rate of 2.38 gigabits per second for more than one hour. This is equivalent to transferring a full CD in 5.6 seconds.
Having multi-gigabit-per-second end-to-end networks can lead to new research and business models such as the formation of "virtual organizations" on a planetary scale. As speed and sustained throughput increase, people can begin sharing their collective computing and data resources. In particular, this is vital for projects on the frontiers of science and engineering, projects such as particle physics, astronomy, bioinformatics, global climate modeling, and seismology.
And of course, the entertainment industry will certainly be interested in helping to push this technology forward.
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